Winkle

A Winkle is a person who has spent unusually long time (...often several generations) in cold sleep.

• They are also commonly known as Girgis.

Description (Specifications)

Such people often suffer severe psycological problems from being suddenly cut off from their roots, everyone they knew dead, and the whole universe drastically changed. Winkles often compensate by forming excessively tight loyalty bonds, either to their fellow survivors or to the organization they were working for at the time of their accident.

History & Background (Dossier)

It happens most often as a result of misjumping to somewhere far from a star system and having to travel back to civilization by sublight drive.

It is named after the hero of an old Solomani folk tale (see Rip van Winkle).

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Traveller Chronicle 6
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science